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• On the post: Attacker Has Techdirt Reclassified As Phishing Site, Proving Masnick’s Impossibility Law Once Again

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2024 @ 10:16am

  Hah, Koby finally managed to pull it! Jokes aside, I like how Cloudflare responded. This should be the standard procedure.

• On the post: Trump FCC Commissioners, Cable Lobby, Use Lazy Soup And Coffee Metaphors To Defend Shitty Broadband Usage Caps

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2024 @ 09:11am

  I pay for them to ensure I can transfer a quantity of liters of soup per unity of time using the SPOON* Fixed.

• On the post: Trump FCC Commissioners, Cable Lobby, Use Lazy Soup And Coffee Metaphors To Defend Shitty Broadband Usage Caps

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2024 @ 09:09am

  Technically the soup is produced by me and the server I'm using. Then I pay my ISP to provide and maintain the spoon which I will use to consume the soup or feed soup to the server. I pay for the size of the spoon. If I pay for a colossal spoon and I want to use the full capacity of the colossal spoon then I will use. What the ISPs are trying to do is to limit how much soup goes through the spoon but none of the soup is produced by the ISP. I pay for them to ensure I can transfer a quantity of liters of soup per unity of time using the soup. They want to control how much soup I can transfer through the spoon. They are fucking assholes.

• On the post: Mass Puppycide Ends Career Of Tennessee Deputy Who Probably Never Should Have Been A Cop

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2024 @ 04:21am

  Next they'll be killing what? Babies with flashbang grenades? Oh... ACAB.

• On the post: Katy Perry Wins Trademark Suit Brought By Katie Perry In Australia

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 27 Nov, 2024 @ 05:08am

  The only Perry possible is THIS Perry. They should both be ashamed.

• On the post: Net Neutrality Is Dead As A Doornail Under Trump 2.0

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2024 @ 07:30am

  The Onion summarized perfectly what happened to the US: "America defeats America."

• On the post: Streaming TV Enshittification Will Continue Until Morale Improves

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2024 @ 05:46am

  I share my streaming stuff with my partner. Thing is, because of my stepdaughter education I live in 2 different addresses. Since I'd have to pay added fees for more than one service I decided a vpn was the least expensive way to deal with the issue for now. Customer service was utterly useless to deal with this on all of them. I already canceled Netflix because of the price hikes and because the content isn't worth it and from the looks of it more services are joining it soon. I'm already planning some Plex setup for the kid because we all know where this shit is going to.

• On the post: More Layoffs At Paramount As Streaming Media Giant’s ‘Merger Synergies’ Continue

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2024 @ 06:08am

  Short term profits are the only focus of any company with stocks to be traded, long term sustainability of the business (or the environment/planet) be damned. There's no future in this economic system.

• On the post: New FTC Rules Make It Easier To Cancel Services, Punish Companies For Being Annoying Little Shits About It

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2024 @ 05:59am

  As the article itself points out, as good (and late) as these rules are, they have a high probability of being shot down by a GOP dominated (and thus corrupt) SCOTUS while the a Congress bribed and owned by corporations do nothing. The US has become a dysfunctional corporatocracy. Having a dysfunctional, two-party only electoral system had a quite pivotal role in getting the country into this state.

• On the post: The FBI Has Apparently Spent A Year Trying To Crack NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Personal Phone

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2024 @ 11:33am

  Even if he hadn't changed the password, can he be compelled to reveal it to law enforcement?

• On the post: Cloudflare Destroys Another Patent Troll, Gets Its Patents Released To The Public

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2024 @ 10:12am

  Cloudflare isn't satisfied with winning against these crooks, they humiliate. Publicly. Without mercy. I like it.

• On the post: Musk’s ‘Free’ Starlink For Helene Victims Wasn’t Free

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2024 @ 06:49am

  A lot of lip service, quite a few lies and very little action. These are basically the modus operandi of these people. When a far-right loon brags about whatever "good action" he/she did, just investigate further and you'll find an hypocrite.

• On the post: Warner Bros. Still Cutting Off Harry Potter’s Nose To Spite His Face

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2024 @ 03:39am

  Harry Potter books were an important part of my life when I developed depression. It took me 10 years to get it diagnosed but HP was there in part of the way giving me comfort. This kind of asshole behavior towards the fans and the overall shitty personality of the writer (the transphobia and all) turned me off from the whole HP world. Sadly.

• On the post: FCC Fines T-Mobile $31.5 Million After Carrier Was Hacked 8 Times In 5 Years

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2024 @ 05:51am

  It's cheaper to ignore the FCC and keep doing business as usual than it is to actually secure their systems. Sure, they are certainly going to straight up after this. /s

• On the post: Republicans, Musk, Pretend To Care About Media Consolidation… When George Soros (Read: A Jew) Is Involved

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2024 @ 07:45am

  People often confuse antisemitism with antizionism. The left (what is there of it in the US) is largely antizionist because of what they are doing in Gaza and in the Middle East. While some of the left veer into antisemitism because of it, most are capable of understanding that Jewish people are not necessarily Zionists, even those living in Israel despite the widespread Arab bigotry in the country.

• On the post: Republicans, Musk, Pretend To Care About Media Consolidation… When George Soros (Read: A Jew) Is Involved

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2024 @ 07:39am

  Soros is a very common bogeyman used by bigoted morons to express their antisemitism freely.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2024 @ 07:14am

  I hope people call this idiot Magneto for the rest of his days.

  An acquaintance of mine is known by the nickname Simba. Because his uncle killed his father. You can't beat this. I'll be taking the line to the Hell Express with no stops. Y'all who laughed come with me xD

• On the post: Big Tech’s Promise Never To Block Access To Politically Embarrassing Content Apparently Only Applies To Democrats

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2024 @ 11:39am

  Let’s say your outcome happens and extremist content on interactive web services is still a problem.

  It seems from personal experiences within Bluesky and following/reading articles people studying the far-right that once they lose their amplification from either the algorithms and/or promoting with money they tend to remain within their own bubble. But considering it doesn't work then it goes beyond my capability to think of some possibility without studying more about the fascist movement in the US. I do believe that the 1st enables consequences for harmful speech. You can debate who says what harmful speech is considering past racist laws and the likes but it's still an option. I believe it's quite consolidated that some speech is harmful because we have already been there. Eugenics for example. Nazism. They are not ideas that have any good in them that were distorted by authoritarian regimes (ie: Communism). They are inherently bad, their core revolve around some humans being worse than others and deserving to be enslaved/killed. There are consequences when you let such speech run free so focus on said consequences.

  Also: Feel free to stop with the First Amendment doomerism any time now. It’s not making your argument any better.

  Afghanistan was a very progressive, free country like 60, 80 years ago. Now it's a repressive theocracy. You are steadily losing rights taken for granted for many decades, sometimes more than a century in the hands of the current SCOTUS. So, yeah. I'll ask you: what can be done to stop a disinformation machine that has the money and power if Trump enters? The projections are a legislative with a majority of Rs, a SCOTUS with a majority of Rs and the executive with a majority of Rs. What do you honestly think is going to survive this scenario? I'm honestly terrified with this because the US still has a ton of world projection and a ton of military power. And Russia is enough of a lunatic with tons of power and a repressive/conservative regime.

• On the post: Big Tech’s Promise Never To Block Access To Politically Embarrassing Content Apparently Only Applies To Democrats

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2024 @ 10:54am

  You can test the platforms for the presence of algorithmically suggested content (in case a ban and the 1st can coexist). If not I don't have an answer. But the end of the 1st is guaranteed if things keep going in the direction they are going. You just need an other Trump and a few more conservative/corrupt judges in the SCOTUS to uphold absurdities.

• On the post: Big Tech’s Promise Never To Block Access To Politically Embarrassing Content Apparently Only Applies To Democrats

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2024 @ 10:45am

  Well, the GOP seems willing to run afoul of the First Amendment in the name of "Free Speech". The question is "will you have a First Amendment to care about if action isn't taken?". As I said, an option would be to ban algorithmic suggestion of content. Not sure if it doesn't run afoul of any other legal framework but it keeps speech intact.

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